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Hava Nagila Karaoke vers2
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Hava Nagila (“Let us rejoice”) is a Jewish folk song traditionally
Hava Nagila is one of the first modern Jewish folk songs in the Hebrew language
Abraham Zevi Idelsohn (1882–1938), a professor at Hebrew University
began cataloging all known Jewish music and teaching Hava Nagila
classes in musical composition; one of his students was a promising cantorial
The melody is based on a Hassidic Nigun. It was composed in 1918, to celebrate the Balfour Declaration and the British victory over the Ottomans in 1917. It was first performed in a mixed choir concert in Jerusalem.